touchy
overly sensitive (person)
TRANSLATION
touchy = empfindlich, zickig --- GOOGLE INDEX touchy: approximately 10,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Both he and President Sarkozy stressed said that full sovereignty would be maintained by each side, admitting that France was as TOUCHY about this as Britain.
(BBC News)
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It's a TOUCHY subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can.
- American singer Jody Watley
(BBC News)
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It's a TOUCHY subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can.
- American singer Jody Watley
Did you
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touchy
adjective
- easily upset or offended; oversensitive
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Touchy relations
In August 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was pleased to learn that Chinese state television had agreed to broadcast a controversial interview in its entirety. Powell was less pleased, however, when the interview aired.
His comments about such touchy subjects as China's relations with Taiwan and its frequent abuse of human rights had obviously been censured. Powell was assured by a Chinese embassy spokesman that the editing had nothing to do with his remarks: "It's one of those typical cases of limited time and a lot of content," he declared. "It's what Chinese television decides. There's just a limit on the amount of time available to newsmakers."
So what had pre-empted Powell's remarks? Late-breaking live coverage of the first Chinese swimmer to cross the English Channel.
Etymology: The root of touchy - touch - stems from the Old French touchier, to "hit, knock," and from the Vulgar Latin toccare, to "knock or strike, as in a bell." However, touchy may have been an alteration of the Middle English tetchy, meaning "easily irritated."
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SYNONYMS
(person)
delicate, easily offended, irritable, sensitive, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned
(subject)
dicey, difficult, sensitive, sticky, ticklish
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If there is one thing that most people can be touchy about, it's their weight."
adjective
- easily upset or offended; oversensitive
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Touchy relations
In August 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was pleased to learn that Chinese state television had agreed to broadcast a controversial interview in its entirety. Powell was less pleased, however, when the interview aired.
His comments about such touchy subjects as China's relations with Taiwan and its frequent abuse of human rights had obviously been censured. Powell was assured by a Chinese embassy spokesman that the editing had nothing to do with his remarks: "It's one of those typical cases of limited time and a lot of content," he declared. "It's what Chinese television decides. There's just a limit on the amount of time available to newsmakers."
So what had pre-empted Powell's remarks? Late-breaking live coverage of the first Chinese swimmer to cross the English Channel.
Etymology: The root of touchy - touch - stems from the Old French touchier, to "hit, knock," and from the Vulgar Latin toccare, to "knock or strike, as in a bell." However, touchy may have been an alteration of the Middle English tetchy, meaning "easily irritated."
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SYNONYMS
(person)
delicate, easily offended, irritable, sensitive, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned
(subject)
dicey, difficult, sensitive, sticky, ticklish
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If there is one thing that most people can be touchy about, it's their weight."
